[Python-ideas] Assignments in list/generator expressions

[Nick Coghlan]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> But with too much expressibility there comes a danger we will fragment into
> different sub-communities, those who think that syntax X is more readable
> than syntax Y and vice versa.  There is no reason to believe that these
> linguistic communities will ever converge. This is the hidden cost of allowing
> more expressiveness in your language.

This is certainly one of points that comes to my mind when folks are
speculating as to reasons why Lisp never became more popular than it
did. (There are plenty of other reason put forward of course, I just
think this is one of the often overlooked possibilities).

Cheers,
Nick.

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